#liamproven — Public Fediverse posts

Just caught up with the 2023 enshittification of Red Hat, a another step in its assimilation by IBM, loyal supplier of computer systems to fascists since 1933;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

"... only paying customers will be able to obtain the source code to [RHEL]… And under the terms of their contracts with the Hat, that means that they can't publish it."

#LiamProven, 2023

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/

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#enshittification #IBM #RedHat #RHEL #SoftwareFreedom

"But Zawinski has the only clear vision and solution we've seen yet. Perhaps he's right, and Mozilla should be a nonprofit, working to fund the one independent, non-vendor-driven, standards-compliant browser engine."

#LiamProven, 2025

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/

But ... it is! Mozilla Foundation is exactly that. It's the sole owner of Mozilla Corporation, which was set up to take Goggle's blood money.

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@theregister

"The first generation of home computers, from Apple, Atari, Commodore, Tandy ... and dozens of others – all looked different, worked differently, and were totally mutually incompatible ... However, users were free to move the cursor around the screen and even edit the existing contents."

#LiamProven, 2024

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/

The first generation? Not exactly. Commodore 64s and other PCs of their era were all CLI, not GUI. As were IBM PCs and their clones until Windows 3.x in 1990.

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#TIL about the #ICE List;

"... an open journalistic project, created by the Crustian Daily, aimed at collecting and sharing information that can hold ICE members legally accountable."

https://icelist.is/

#HatTip to #LiamProven for the link;

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/wikidata_foss_democracy/

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/what_is_unix/

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -- #LiamProven

#apiDesign #systems #unix

> "a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness." #MartinReiser
> "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster." #NiklausWirth
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/11/software_versus_hardware/
#LiamProven
/HT @gerrymcgovern